Here goes the first release candidate.
It contains mostly networking updates, XFS update, amongst
others.
This release contains a fix for excessive inode memory pressure
with highmem boxes. Help is specially wanted with testing this on
heavy-load highmem machines.
Summary of changes from v2.4.25-pre8 to v2.4.25-rc1
<chrisw:osdl.org>:
- Verify interpreter arch
<davej:redhat.com>:
- fix agpgart warning
<davem:nuts.davemloft.net>:
- [IRDA]: Mark driver init/exit funcs static where possible
- [SPARC64]: Fix TUNSETIFF ioctl compat, it takes an ifreq ptr
not an int - [TG3]: Bump version and reldate
- [SPARC64}: Fix ultra-III and later support of new-style SILO
booting
<grundler:parisc-linux.org>:
- [TG3]: Fix DMA test failures
- [TG3]: Only fetch NVRAM_CMD reg if TG3_FLAG_NVRAM
<jlcooke:certainkey.com>:
- [CRYPTO]: Help gcc optimize sha256/sha512 better
<jmorris:redhat.com>:
- [CRYPTO]: Make padding[] array static in
sha{256,512}_final() - Zero last byte of mount option page
<marcelo:logos.cnet>:
- Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc1
<rml:ximian.com>:
- Fix sys_readahead(): Count free pages on maximum ra size
calculation
Adrian Bunk:
- fix a compile warning in amd76x_pm.c
- fix a compile warning in tipar.c
- fix a compile warning in InterMezzo file.c
Ben Collins:
- [SPARC64]: Add comment for HdrS ver 0x201
- [SPARC64]: Add header for section boundary references
- [SPARC64]: Changes to accomodate booting from non-phys_base
memory
Chas Williams:
- [ATM]: [idt77252] fix dma_addr_t type error with
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y (by “Randy.Dunlap” <rddunlap@osdl.org>) - [ATM]: [clip] check return code from kmem_cache_create (by
“Randy.Dunlap” <rddunlap@osdl.org>)
Christoph Hellwig:
- [XFS] Small ktrace fixes
- [XFS] Don’t fail pagebuf allocations
David Brownell:
- usb/gadget/file_storage.c doesn’t compile with gcc 2.95
David S. Miller:
- [DECNET]: Fix filling in of header length field
- [CREDITS]: Update Bjorn Ekwall’s address
David Stevens:
- [IPV4]: Add per-device sysctl to force IGMP version
- [IPV4]: Fix IGMP device reference counting
Harald Welte:
- [NETFILTER]: Fix ipt_conntrack/ipt_state module
refcounting - [NETFILTER]: Really fix ipt_state/ipt_conntrack
refcounting
Herbert Xu:
- invalid kfree in ntfs_printcb
Luca Tettamanti:
- Fix ac97_plugin_ad1980.c compilation warning
- Fix aha1542.c compilation warning
- Fix cpqfcTSi2c.c compilation warning
- IEEE1394(r1123): Fix compile warning
- Fix amd7930_fn.h compilation warning
- Fix drivers/net/wan/8253x/crc32.c compilation warning
- Fix vac-serial.c compilation warning
Mirko Lindner:
- sk98lin: Reset Xmac when stopping the port
Nathan Scott:
- [XFS] Remove xfsidbg debugger interfaces, not useful without
kdb - [XFS] Fix a warning from some gcc variants after recent flags
botch - [XFS] Add the security extended attributes namespace
- [XFS] Remove no-longer-needed debug symbol exports
Patrick McHardy:
- [NET_SCHED]: Add HFSC packet scheduler
Russell Cattelan:
- [XFS] Christoph has signed over copyrights
- [XFS] Move bits around to better manage common code. No
functional change - [XFS] Remove non 2.4 ifdefs from the linux-2.4 dir
Rusty Russell:
- [NETFILTER]: ipt_limit fix for HZ=1000
Scott Feldman:
- e100 sync with 2.6